check (pattern); ichimatsu doll
sorceress; medium; female fortuneteller; (arch.) child from the city
(town) market; (street) market; marketplace
secondhand book fair; antiquarian book market
free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places)
year-end fair; year-end market
antique market; flea market
tori-no-ichi (held at Ōtori Shrine on each day of the Rooster in November)
year-end fair; year-end market
flower market during Obon; fair of plants and flowers (as offerings)
antique market; flea market; jumble market; used-goods market
charity bazaar; charity bazar
to have many visitors (of a home); to be prosperous (of a shop)
female guardian deity of the market
disposal sale; surplus good sale
to form a crowd; to have a crowd of people
to let a fox into the henhouse; to do something dangerous; (lit.) to let loose a tiger in the marketplace
to have many visitors (of a home); to be prosperous (of a shop)
people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); (lit.) there's a tiger in the market